their product to market. Our findings show that these innovation opportunities were mostly recognized during time … cases, the innovation had significant impacts on the quality of lives of the patients and, in case of caregivers, on both … ailment. This finding on innovation's social component complements current research on lead-users, as the solution of one …

("social capital"). -- Lead Markets ; Frugal Innovations ; India ; Globalization of Innovation ; Internationalization of R&D …India has emerged as a vibrant and versatile source for cost effective, "disruptive innovations" of various varieties … creating solutions that are able to circumvent given environmental constraints in a cost effective way. India's large and …

-driven innovations (“frugal innovations”) from India we investigate how firms can effectively reduce market and technology uncertainty of …-driven innovations are especially successful when firms seek recourse to “open global innovation networks” (OGINs) for collaborative … development in all phases of the innovation value chain …

-organizational learning, harvesting innovation and engaging in entrepreneurial activities. Recently, a new model of open innovation … institutional theory our findings show that the diffusion of the open innovation collaboration practice is either imitatively or … innovation collaboration as a marketing tool to let the incumbent’s innovation activity glitter more. Therefore, we conclude that …

capabilities in some "emerging economies" like China and India call for a reassessment of the appropriateness of the "conventional … purpose of the present study is to specifically assess India's potential as a lead market for cost-effective frugal … India. The factors identified thus are then incorporated in the theoretic model to derive propositions about India's lead …